I've just taken on a client who has been building his databases in MS Access for 14 years. He wants to put a significant amount of this data into an online MySQL application. I know it can be done, and I've agreed to help him do it. Does anyone have a feel for what it will take to get his data migrated?

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It's true that he has a very complex set of databases, but at least all of the linking, query, and table structure, as well as the GUI (in Visual Basic) is known. Armed with that information, we should be able to build a MySQL structure that works with modules we plan to create under the ]project-open[ framework. It's possible that some other framework will suit our needs better.

if you are familiar with databases then creating a MySQL DB to match the table structure he has in access should be the easy part. the hard part will be building forms to match the forms he currently has and then migrate the data into the new DB. Since it will be online you will probably need to build web pages to do this. PHP works well in this case. Just make sure that you do input validation so that SQL injections are not possible.

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